Show crowded condition odthe calendar they will help along busi ness important test case before the court washington march 24 special the act which passed on one of the closing days of the last session of congress for the establishment of the united stampa circuit courts of appeal and to define the jurisdiction of the united states courts has for ita purpose the relief of the contested condition of business before the supreme court ad prevention of its recurrence it is a tn for which a necessity has been e for more than twenty years it is M il known that the docket of the court and antil now there has beao no hope of a better state of things in practice it has been found feces ry to advance case of pai amount importance so that they liht have an early hearing hut every such advancement put hack the other cageao on the calendar and so to retard the business of the court and the due and prompt administration of justice B it when once the present docket is cleared th s e will be no longer necessity the act makes the nin new circuit caris tribunals of jurisdiction in federal litigation as now constituted and for bachof them the president is empowered to appoint a hew judge who with the present circuit judge and the supreme coutt justice allotted to that circuit ia td constitute ita court of appeal tha act carefully defines the class of case may still be brought directly on appeal before the supreme coart and it s carefully specifies alie cases in weicht the judgment of the circuit courts of appeals is to be final provision also being made that a circuit court of appeal may certify to the supreme court any question on which it desires instruction and that the supreme coart may have the right to take special cases under review alie fear expressed la sonic quarters that under the arrangement nei the supreme court will disye too little to do will doubtless arave a groundless hension affe gravest questions are still reserved for its adjudication capt ferry of the british sealer say ward which id now so prominently before th public in connection with the test case pending in the supreme court has been a the city during the part few days to confer with the british minister being an old sealer and thoroughly versed in the habits and ch of the seal his information has been very valuable to the representatives presenta tives al her majestia majest ya government and ina particular to the periods seals properly and profit abla taken according to secretary blaines idea it iff to prevent seal jakine between may and october ac which time captain ferry states bearing animals are shedding their coats while the representatives of both great britain and the united states have practically agreed upon an arbitrator another obstacle has arisen growing out of the attitude of germany on the seal question secretary blaine sal sir Julian ef arte rte have come I 1 the that bittle would be gained by an amicable settlement of the points of difference between their governments ern ments junices germany becomes a party to the agreement nervous does not express the condition of cyeral hundred employed emp loyes of the government printing office who are daily expecting a repetition of the slide which took place last weela when more than male and female employed emp loyes received notification that their services were no idonger required i na distinction was made as to politics color time of service or previous con edition of servitude K was it confined to any particular department division or room but the scalping knife which always falls ater the adjournment journ ment of congress in this great workshop shop struck in all of the several places |